Home
RSS
At the current dollar-ruble exchange rate of 23.5:1, 7,000 rubles amounts to $297.87.
That’s the average monthly wage of a petrochemical worker in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, just west of the Urals on the border of Siberia. The major metropolis...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
10
Star It 
(0)
President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are launching two days of high-stakes meetings expressing confidence that they can make progress.
Obama...
made popular 7 hr. ago
Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
made popular Jul 4 2009
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will be looking to trumpet their commitment to reducing nuclear arms when they meet in Moscow next week. Resetting U.S.-...
made popular Jul 2 2009
At the Metelitsa casino, the oldest private gambling house in Moscow, which opened in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union, they are packing up the card shoes and...
made popular Jul 1 2009
Filed under: Sports, News, Weird Passengers on a new cruise along the coast of Somalia are paying to catch more than just salmonella. A Russian luxury yacht company is...
made popular Jul 1 2009
NATO and Russia are likely to resume formal military ties Saturday at their first high-level meeting since last year’s war between Russia and Georgia.
Relations...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Once it would have been Cold War rhetoric and “fraternal greetings” to Marxist guerrillas. Yesterday Russia returned to Africa in a scramble to restore its...
made popular Jun 24 2009
The leader, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, president of Ingushetia, was being driven to work in a motorcade when it was hit by an enormous bomb. One or more of his bodyguards may...
made popular Jun 22 2009
In a strange demonstration of what we would call supernatural celebrity power, Brad Pitt, or rather his cardboard cutouts seem to be helping ease traffic problems in...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Tired of trying your hands with the computer in a game of chess? Now, here is a robot from Russia, designed to play chess and frequently beat you at it. The robot’s...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Anatoly Boiko stands in front of a pile of neatly sawn planks. The wood, he says, is one of the oddest government handouts he’s ever received.
To help the...
made popular Jun 18 2009
The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday,...
made popular Jun 17 2009
Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the...
made popular Jun 16 2009
High level Kremlin officials close to Prime Minister Putin have expressed deep concerns with regard to the delays to law enforcement actions being sanctioned by...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led...
made popular Jun 10 2009
President Dmitri A. Medvedev, who rarely misses a chance to accuse the United States of causing the global financial crisis, told an economic forum on Friday that...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Filed under: News, Weird, Nature Motorcycle riding offers a unique sense of freedom and excitement, but these advantages are weighed against significant safety issues....
made popular Jun 3 2009
The Russian nesting doll, the pride of a nation, is in trouble. For more than 200 years, the matryoshka has come to symbolise Russian handicraft at its finest, the...
made popular Jun 1 2009
Feral children are long known to display animal behavior but here is a case of a five-year-old Russian girl who has been raised in a city but who barks and behaves like...
made popular May 30 2009
Months of infighting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev over Russia’s budget ended on Monday - with Medvedev on top. At a...
made popular May 27 2009
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
AP, Almaty
Kazakhstan’s cycling federation said Thursday it will resume paying salaries to Lance Armstrong’s Astana team now that it has received money owed by its...
made popular Apr 16 2009
...the prescribed minimum wage, the average domestic worker’s wages are insufficient even to cover the food needs of the average family, let alone other needs,...
made popular Aug 11 2008
AP, Washington
Wages and benefits paid to U.S. workers rose by a moderate amount in the spring that should not set off any inflation concerns at the Federal Reserve.
made popular Jul 31 2008
AP, Washington
Wages and benefits paid to U.S. workers rose by a moderate amount in the spring that should not set off any inflation concerns at the Federal Reserve.
made popular Jul 31 2008
A recent survey has shown a “dramatic deterioration” in pay for many sectors of the New Zealand workforce, the jobs that saw a drop in wages were those already low...
made popular Jul 25 2008
Poor children given a nutritional boost during the first two years of life earned adult wages nearly 50 percent higher than peers deprived of a food supplement, a study...
made popular Feb 2 2008
AP, New York
Paying employees and contractors around the world can be an expensive hassle, after accounting for wire transfer fees and delays when checks are mailed.A New York...
made popular Nov 14 2007
Northwest Airlines is no longer operating under federal bankruptcy protection.The nation’s fifth-largest carrier’s, Michigan’s largest air carrier...
made popular Jun 1 2007
A recent survey by Waltham, Massachusetts-based compensation experts Salary.com shows that mothers are eligible to earn an extra of $85,876 annually over and above...
made popular May 4 2006
If one thinks that the Western companies hiring cheap child laborers of Third World are actually exploiting them, then one is altogether wrong at least if one goes by...
made popular Oct 14 2005
Related Tags
Astana costs cyc Economy employment Federal Reserve hunger-strike Kazakhstan kozlovsky Lance Armstrong Astana new zealand North America Pictorial Politics & Society Putin Russia sports U.S. United States Washington
Images
Wuhan:
Chinese migrant workers block an entrance to a real estate complex with a banner reading “give us our blood and sweat money” in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. The protesters claim the developer owes over 70 migrant...
